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When the shore is won at last,

Who will count the billows past?

a.

KEBLE-Lines for St. John's Day.

Get Place and Wealth; if possible with grace;
If not, by any means get Wealth and Place.
b. POPE-Epistles of Horace.
Ep. I.
Bk. I. Line 103.
The race by vigour, not by vaunts is won.
C. POPE-The Dunciad. Bk. II. Line 60.
Didst thou never hear

That things ill got had ever bad success?
d. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 2.
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds, that lower'd upon our
house,

In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Richard III. Act I.

e.

Sc. 1.

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Suffering is the surest means of making us truthful to ourselves.

0. SISMONDI.

SUICIDE.

I'm weary of conjectures-this must end them.

p. ADDISON-Cato. Act V. Sc. 1.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward; for it is cowardice to shun the trials and crosses of life, not undergoing death because it is honourable, but to avoid evil.

1. ARISTOTLE-Ethic. III. 2. Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout,

That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER-Honest

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Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. Sc. 13. I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun,

And wish th' estate o' the world were now undone.

U. Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 5.

Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly
hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage;

But when from highmost pitch, with weary

car,

Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract, and look another way.
v. Sonnet VII.

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,

That I may see my shadow as I pass.

20.

Richard III. Act I.

Sc. 2.

That orbed continent, the fire

Twelfth Night. Act V. Sc. 1.

That severs day from night.

Germany. 1815.

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The east is blossoming! Yea, a rose,
Vast as the heavens, soft as a kiss,
Sweet as the presence of woman is,
Rises and reaches and widens and grows
Right out of the sea, as a blossoming tree;
Richer and richer; so higher and higher,
Deeper and deeper it takes its hue;
Brighter and brighter it reaches through
The space of heaven and the place of stars,
Till all as rich as a rose can be,

And my rose leaves fall into billows of fire. kc. JOAQUIN MILLER-Sunrise in Venice.

WALLER-To the King. Line 1.

SUN-SET.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! 2. BAILEY-Festus. Sc. A Library and Balcony.

The shadows spread apace; while unkind

Eve,

Her cheek yet warm with blushes, slow retires

Through the Hesperian gardens of the West, And shuts the gates of Day.

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ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD-A Summer
Evening's Meditation.

The West is crimson with retiring day;
And the North gleams with its own native
light.

S. JOHN H. BRYANT-Sonnet.

It was the cooling hour, just when the

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Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill, Which then seems as if the whole earth is

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Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon

Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape;

Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest

Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

h. LONGFELLOW-Evangeline. Pt. II. Sec. 2.

The day is done; and slowly from the scene The stooping sun up-gathers his spent shafts, And puts them back into his golden quiver! i. LONGFELLOW-Christus. The Golden Legend. Court-Yard of the Castle.

Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. j. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. IV.

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Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,
Sir Knight, that I am one of those,
I might suspect, and take th' alarm,
Your bus'ness is but to inform;
But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near,
You have a wrong sow by the ear.
j.

BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III.
Line 575.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
g. PLUTARCH-Life of Cæsar. Ch. X.
All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
POPE-Essay on Criticism. Line 558.

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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
j. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act V. Sc. 6.
There is some ill a brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream of money-bags to night.

k. Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 5. Would he were fatter:-But I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear,

I do not know the man I should avoid

So soon as that spare Cassius.

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Julius Caesar. Act I. Sc. 2.

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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. ALCOTT-Table-Talk. Sympathy.

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